Director Software Development Oracle San Francisco

Job description
Manage a team that designs, develops, troubleshoots and debugs software programs for databases, applications, tools, networks etc.
As a director of the software engineering division, you will apply your extensive knowledge of software architecture to manage software development tasks associated with developing, debugging or designing software applications, operating systems and databases according to provided design specifications. Build enhancements within an existing software architecture and envision future improvements to the architecture.


Assists in the development of short, medium, and long term plans to achieve strategic objectives. Regularly interacts across functional areas with senior management or executives to ensure unit objectives are met. Ability to influence thinking or gain acceptance of others in sensitive situations. Demonstrated leadership and people management skills. Strong communication skills, analytical skills, thorough understanding of product development. BS or MS degree or equivalent experience relevant to functional area. 7 years of software engineering or related experience.

Our team builds distributed services that handle planning, provisioning, life cycle management and security of our network infrastructure. We are reimagining the traditional planning, provisioning and life cycle management of our network infrastructure to provide strong guarantees of security and availability with our new large scale distributed services. Our services expose highly available, software defined networking (SDN) capabilities for virtual network formation to our elastic compute customers.



We’re looking for hands-on leader with strong management experience to come lead and build a team responsible for building in distributed systems, virtualized infrastructure, and highly available services. If this is you, at Oracle you can design and build innovative new systems from the ground up. These are exciting times in our space - we are growing fast, still at an early stage, and working on ambitious new initiatives. An engineer at any level can have significant technical and business impact.



As a Director of Development you will own and manage a team of software engineers responsible for the software architecture and development for major components of Oracle’s Cloud Infrastructure. You should be comfortable with low level operating systems development, be able to architect broad systems interactions, while being very hands-on, able to dive deep into any part of the stack and higher level system interactions. You should value simplicity and scale, work comfortably in a collaborative, agile environment, and be excited to learn.

Basic Qualifications

-5+ years of management experience in enterprise software
7+ years of experience with applications development with 2+ years in large scale distributed applications / web services
Proficient at programming in Java, Python
Bachelors in computer science and Engineering or related engineering fields



Preferred Qualifications

10+ years of experience
Prior development experience with Network configuration management, skills with perl and ruby a plus
Masters / PhD degree in Computer Science or related engineering fields

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